‘Spread the Love’ with country star at Blossom
Kenny Chesney will make the Blossom lawn feel like the beach as his “Spread the Love Tour” arrives at 7:30 p.m. Openers are Old Dominion. Tickets are $31-$85.75 at 330-745-3000, www.ticketmaster.com. Read more in Malcolm X Abram’s Sound Check column in today’s Enjoy.
Laugh it up with comic Mike Polk Jr. at Funny Stop
“Factory of Sadness” comic Mike Polk Jr. kicks off three nights at the Funny Stop in Cuyahoga Falls with an 8 p.m. show benefiting the Lori A. Lepper Foundation, which helps cancer patients pay for treatments. Tickets are $10 at http://lorilepper.org/. Polk will do four more shows at 8 and 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 330-923-4700, www.funnystop.com.
Listen to baroque orchestra descend into madness
You don’t expect a baroque orchestra to perform a concert titled “On the Brink of Insanity: Portrayals of Women as Mad, Crazy, and Unhinged,” but Burning River Baroque will do just that at 8 p.m. at Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library, 3512 Darrow Road, Stow. A selection of pieces by G. F. Handel, John Eccles and Henry Purcell, with an original work by Malina Rauschenfels about the Salem witch trials. Free, but tickets required; go to www.smfpl.org/event/2016_05_26/burning_river_baroque.
Groove to sounds of Bruce Hornsby at Hard Rock
Bruce Hornsby’s career didn’t end in 1986 with The Way It Is. He’s kept making music in many styles, including jazz, rock and bluegrass, playing with different groups of musicians and even touring extensively with the Grateful Dead. He’ll play at 7:30 p.m. with the Noisemakers at the Hard Rock Rocksino Northfield Park. Tickets are $35-$49.50 at 800-745-3000, www.ticketmaster.com.